make a near full recovery after having emergency brain surgery to save his life. he did have another big scare over the weekend as he fell and hit his head again. he was trying to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night by himself which he isn t supposed to do. doctors performed a ct scan following the fall to make sure there wasn t any swelling in his brain and thankfully the results came back normal. this happened just after easton had thanked all his fans for the thoughts and prayers. hey, this is easton. thank you for the prayers. you starting to feel better, bud? yeah, i m starting to feel better. awesome. team easton. we love you, buddy. love you, too. we all continue to pray for easton and his recovery. his team from utah was eliminated from the little league world series yesterday. new day continues right now. alarming new video of a violent arrest in arkansas. i m john berman, brianna is off, cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins
significant reduction in the american standard of living. their words, not mine. but when you break it down, the reality gets even more troubling. during the recession, the average income slipped by about 3%. but after the recession when the economy was supposed to be picking up, take a look. the average income dropped by nearly 7%, down to $49,909. incomes fell more after the recession ended than they did during the actual recession. as the senate begins debating president obama s jobs bill, perhaps this explains why so many people are angry. and also explains, in part, why occupy wall street has become a nationwide movement in its fourth week. the protests have now spread far beyond wall street to more than two dozen cities. like it or not, it is a voice the president, lawmakers and the gop presidential candidates can no longer ignore. i don t know where it s going to go but they need to go away, because in my opinion, they re focusing on the wrong thing. seems to me t
expected to take place sometime this week. 60 votes are needed to overcome republican efforts to block the measure. here s athena jones with more on jobs bill and earth whether it ever pass. reporter: putting americans back to work is president obama s priority. say we can grow the economy as much as 2%, and as many as 1.9 million workers. reporter: he s been pushing the plan everywhere. at a press conference last week, on the road, on facebook and twitter, and in his weekly address. this is not the time for the usual games or political gridlock in washington. reporter: the bill would cut payroll taxes, extend unemployment benefits, give tax credits for hiring veterans or the long-term unemployed and provide money to keep public workers on the job and invest in rebuilding schools and road and paid for with a 5.6% tax on income over $1 million starting in 2013. the political stakes for mr. obama are high. no president since franklin roosevelt has bun re-elected with